biography
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Thackeray, William Makepeace
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1811–63)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), E India. He studied at Cambridge, left without taking a degree, and visited Germany (1830–1), where he met Goethe. In line for a large inheritance, he turned to journalism, bought the National Standard (1833), and lost his fortune a year later. He first attracted attention as a writer with his work in Punch (1842), in which he exploited the view of society as seen by a footman, and the great theme of English snobbery. Most of his major novels were all published as monthly serials: Vanity Fair (1847–8), Pendennis (1848), and The Newcomes (1853–5) - Henry Esmond (1852) being the exception. He travelled widely as a lecturer in Europe, and in 1860 became the first editor of The Cornhill Magazine, where much of his later work appeared. |
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